Latest Fact-Checks By Eric Stirgus

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Elaine Boyer
Elaine Boyer
stated on July 20, 2011 in an interview:
"[T]his breed (of pit bulls) is most often associated with aggressive behavior."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • August 3, 2011
Chip Rogers
Chip Rogers
stated on July 11, 2011 in Town hall meeting:
"The state of Georgia is near the bottom among states for SAT scores and graduation rates."
True
By Eric Stirgus • July 27, 2011
Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp
stated on June 20, 2011 in :
"The State Election Board has issued nearly $275,000 in fines to violators of absentee ballot laws."
True
By Eric Stirgus • July 19, 2011
Jack Murphy
Jack Murphy
stated on June 27, 2011 in a press release:
Georgia’s illegal-immigration legislation "simply follows existing federal law."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • July 18, 2011
Ralph Long
Ralph Long
stated on July 6, 2011 in a press conference:
"The [Georgia] General Assembly took away the Atlanta Board of Education’s oversight of the superintendent."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • July 13, 2011
Al Roker
Al Roker
stated on June 16, 2011 in a broadcast:
"(Birmingham, Ala.) is the cradle of the civil rights movement."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 28, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 13, 2011 in a debate:
"The right-to-work states are creating a lot more jobs today than the heavily unionized states."
True
By Eric Stirgus • June 21, 2011
Ray Lewis
Ray Lewis
stated on May 25, 2011 in an interview:
"Do this research … watch how much crime picks up if you take away [football]."
False
By Eric Stirgus • June 17, 2011
Charlotte Nash
Charlotte Nash
stated on May 18, 2011 in a speech:
"We have the best schools in the United States."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 7, 2011
Robert Brown
Robert Brown
stated on May 17, 2011 in an interview:
"We in the Democratic Party had no input into the locations of these hearings, nor did we have input into the process."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 6, 2011
Charlotte Nash
Charlotte Nash
stated on May 18, 2011 in a speech:
"Annual water usage in 2010 was actually down more than 18 percent from usage in 2006."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • June 1, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on May 20, 2011 in a press conference:
Says the United States is "the Saudi Arabia of coal."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • May 27, 2011
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on May 9, 2011 in a speech:
"The health care price tag for childhood obesity in Georgia is $2.4 billion annually and rising."
False
By Eric Stirgus • May 20, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 11, 2011 in a presidential campaign announcement video:
"For four years, we balanced the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt."
False
By Eric Stirgus, Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 11, 2011 in a campaign video:
During his time as House speaker, "unemployment came down from 5.6 percent to under 4 (percent)."
False
By Eric Stirgus, Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011
Renee Unterman
Renee Unterman
stated on April 14, 2011 in a speech:
"Gwinnett Medical Center is operating in the negative," in part, because of illegal immigrants.
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • May 11, 2011
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius
stated on April 19, 2011 in a speech:
"One of three patients hospitalized (is) harmed by the care they receive."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • May 3, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 26, 2011 in an interview:
Says "we have now more Border Patrol officers … than we’ve had at any time in our history."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • April 29, 2011
Kathleen Angelucci
Kathleen Angelucci
stated on March 9, 2011 in a newspaper article:
"It is a fact that it costs more to run the schools in August."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • April 22, 2011
Tom Graves
Tom Graves
stated on April 13, 2011 in a Twitter post:
"America's wealthiest 25 percent pay 86 percent of total income taxes. Wealthiest 5 percent pay 60 percent of total income taxes."
True
By Eric Stirgus • April 20, 2011
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